Tick tock shock!

You gain consciousness to the sound of a high-pitched alarm clock buzzing loudly in your ear. As you adjust your upper-body to silence this increasingly annoying device, bright rays of morning sun blind you; darting and piercing through half open eyes. Another day of class, meetings and events has begun. "Do not be late, can not be late, will not be late," the voice in your head clearly wills you to get up and meet the challenges of the day. Being on time has certainly never been such an important part of your existence, especially since you lived your entire life in the undersized settlement of Moshi in Tanzania. Moving to the United States for higher education has inevitably made you servant to the ever-ticking clock that dictates this land.

Life in Moshi is as slow paced as the small turtles that walk around your garden in the evenings. School starts at 7:30am however most students and auxiliary staff arrive approximately 5 minutes as a matter of local custom. The International School of Moshi with its multinational instructors tries its best to enforce strict time constraints. Nevertheless a good number of events, classes and functions run their course on their own time schedule. In due time the foreign staff catch on to the relaxed perception of interpreting time follow course to the local way of doing things.